The Steam Amp 01

This is a functioning 8 watt per channel valve amplifier that I built. The blue bars behind the glass are UVLED-illuminated acrylic rods. Those cans on top of the amp each has a transformer in it so this sucker is small but HEAVY, and it puts off a ton of heat... but it sounds oh-so-sweet. And louder than you might expect from something with only 8 watts.

I'm in the process of building a set of matching speakers, and will post them when finished.

You can see WIP photos of this project on my blog at www.coppersteam.com

I guess that is the essence of such machines: heavy, limited perameters and sucks energy like a hog

but it is durable, lives for ungodly amounts of time, and what it does, it does spectacularly

I've heard tubes compared to model T's and transistors compared to Ferraris, there is much to be respected when basic limited manufacturing and engineering parameters are bent to achieve so much on their own

it is greatly what made things like the AK-47 firearm line have such unyielding success...

I'm temped to think tubes would have a much bigger niche if they were enignieered smarter and smaller and fed not with limited fuel supplies, but renewable energies... which are virtually limitless (although nuclear, when done right, also could last... hundreds of millions of years without ecological threat...)

if you would be so kind as to through me the link of the kit, i have always wanted a valve amp and if i could buiild one how cool would that be?. i really love your stuff. the brass touch is reall nice.